RETIRED
DEFENCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION (RDOA) (REGD)
MINUTES
OF THE EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING HELD ON
24th
APRIL 2016 AT DSOI DHAULA KUAN, NEW DELHI AT 1100 HRS
1. The Extraordinary General Body Meeting of the ‘Retired Defence
Officers Association’ (RDOA) was held on 24th April 2016 at 1100 Hrs
at DSOI Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi-110010. House assembled at 1030hrs, because of
lack of quorum it was adjourned for half an hour and reassembled at 1100hrs.The
meeting was attended by 46 officers.
AGENDA
POINT NO. 1
Welcome address by the
President RDOA: Lt Col BK Sharma.
2. Lt Col BK Sharma (Retd), President of
RDOA, welcomed all the members to the First
EGM of RDOA. He gave an overview of
the important issues taken up by RDOA to include Contempt Petition, Minimum
Guaranteed Pension & Broad banding of Disability Pension.
3. The President informed the members that EGM
has been called basically to present and pass the account of FY 2013-2014 &
2014-2015. However points have been called from members for interactive session
and elect office bearers i.e Vice President, Joint Secretary and treasurer. President
then read out the membership details of RDOA.
4. President brought out to the
notice of all members present in the meeting with anguish that “some members are passing
derogatory remarks/using indecent language while sending emails to other
members & even to non members doubting the integrity and sincerity of
President/Secretary. One of them even sent an email requesting ”Registrar of Societies” to take action
against the office bearers for financial dealings. My humble request to these
members is to tell the August House
reasons for such
behavior at this belated stage. I have the copies of all the emails sent by
these members but I do not wish to read out because it may leave a bad taste.
My suggestion to annoyed members is kindly
“do not make any false allegation”. The accounts will be placed
before the house today, please point out irregularities, if any. Please refrain from working against the
interest of organization. I leave
it to house to judge and decide”.
5. The President then read out the names of members
who had contributed to the RDOA corpus fund since Sep 2015. He thanked
these members for their whole-hearted support and then proceeded with the remaining agenda points.
AGENDA POINT NO. 2
Progress Cases
6. President gave the progress and present
position of following cases:-
(a) Contempt Petition
(b) Minimum Guaranteed Pension
(c) Broad banding of Disability Pension
(d) Non Functional Financial Up gradation
AGENDA POINT NO. 3
Confirmation of
Minutes of the last AGM held on 12th Sep 2015
7. The salient points of the meeting of the AGM
held on 12th Sep 2015 were
read out
to the members. There being
no observation the minutes were
passed
duly proposed by Col VK Sud (M No. 434) and
seconded Lt Col RS
Tripathi
(M No. 1567)
AGENDA POINT NO. 4
Presentation & Passing of accounts for
the FY 2013-14 and FY 2014-15
8. The statement of
accounts for the period 01 Apr 2013 to
31 March 2014
and 01 Apr 2014 to 31 Mar 2015 duly audited by Chartered Accountant
were presented to the members. This was
also given as a handout to all the members. Lt Col VK Ogra pointed out that on 31.3.2014
balance with syndicate bank is shown as Rs. 9,67,811.79. It being huge amount, member
suggested that liquid cash should have been invested in FDR or in any other scheme to fetch more
interest.
“President
replied that 7 lakhs and 5 lakhs were deposited in FDR on
17.4.2014 and 03.09.2014 respectively.”
9. Lt Col Paramjit Singh (M No. 174)
suggested that audited copies of statement of a/c should have been put on website/blog or copies sent by
post for the information of members in advance so that they come for AGM/EGM
after going through the accounts in detail fully prepared with observation. Group
Capt BM Karir supported his suggestion.
“President said that the suggestion is well
taken. Henceforth it shall be put on website/blog one or two weeks in advance of AGM.”
10. There
being no observations, the accounts for
FY 2013-14 & 2014-15 were passed being proposed by Lt Col Rajgopalan Ramamurthy ( M No. 374) and seconded by Lt Col VK Ogra (M No. 1274).
AGENDA POINT NO. 5
Points from
Members
11. (Maj RP Sehgal, M No. 2563)
Substantive majors with less than 21 years of service who retired before
Dec 1985 seem to have been denied the justified due pension under OROP formula.
You won’t find any major with more than 13 years of service now, as all such officers
would have become Lt Col, and would thus
draw their pension of that rank. So the matter should be taken up with
appropriate authorities that all majors
who had attained substantive rank before retirement pre 1986, should be given
the pension of the rank of Lt Col. I am a bonafide member of the RDOA, but am
unable to attend the proposed meeting due to family circumstances and my age.
Decision
“As per the available information Service HQs
have already taken up the issue with MoD. RDOA will also take appropriate action after detailed discussion.”
12. (Brig R Vinayak, VSM (Retd) M No. 1695) I am a
member of RDOA and residing in Bhopal. I
would like to suggest that no contribution should be given to any other ESM Organisation especially IESM since
their funds management is suspect and under litigation.
President read out the relevant portion of rules and
regulations i.e
“It is mandatory on the part of the office
bearers and the members of RDOA that the funds/properties of the RDOA shall
only be spent/utilised for the uplift and welfare of the RDOA and not for any
other purpose.”
Decision
“Members present in the House agreed that we must strictly adhere to rules and regulations
and no contribution be given go any organisation.”
13.
(Col VK Anand M No. 980) I would like to put forward the following points for your kind
consideration :-
Point-1. Rank Pay Anamoly Case The founder members were of the strong
view that after the Supreme Court
Judgment , RDOA Will take up a
case for Revision / re- fixation
of pay scales of Armed Forces Officers
for the period of 4th ,
5th & 6th CPC . This point was not discussed
during last AGM. It will be
appropriate to take up this case with the
Supreme Court.
Point-2 RDOA was
formed to contest Rank Pay anomaly case & since
the point mentioned above is not being Contested, it will be proper
to wind Association & transfer the Funds to Prime Minister’s
Relief
Fund after auditing of accounts.
Point-3 It is not understood as to why EGM has been
convened . AGM could
have been convened to pass accts. It is pointed out that Accounts for
the FY 2013-14 was not presented in the last AGM.
Point-4 There
are three posts of President ,Secretary & Treasurer. Treasurer
died four
years ago but no elections were
held. It is not understood as
why
elections are not held for the post of President & Secretary.
Point wise reply was
as under:-
Point-1 “ He explained to all members present in the
house the 4th CPC Rank Pay
case in detail. He said contempt petition did help us in getting the
benefit of 5th CPC and told them the reasons
for disposal of contempt petition. He assured the members that RDOA will
take appropriate action at appropriate time”. He further told the house that
this was explained/discussed in last AGM held on 12 Sep 2015.
Point-2
Point was left open for discussion during EGM.
House unanimously rejected the proposal of Col VK Anand.
Point-3 President justified the delay and explained the
reasons in not getting the accounts passed in the last AGM. He further read out the Agenda point 5 of Minutes of AGM held on 12th Sep
2015 which confirm the true efforts made by the management to get the accounts
audited and placed for approval now.
Point-4 He again read out
the resolution passed by house on 12th Sep 2015. Members raised their pitch and requested the President to proceed with the next agenda
point.
AGENDA POINT NO. 6
Election of
Vice President, Joint Secretary and Treasurer
14. President
told the house
that total of
five members have sent
their
willingness to contest the election. Col VK Anand & Major AR
Ghosh have forwarded their names for
Vice President. Only one member’s name has been received for Joint
Secretary that of Col Rajiv Kakra. Col
Vijay Kumar and Lt Col Paramjit have
given their willingness for Treasurer. He suggested the name of Col VK Suri as
Returning Officer. Col VK Suri accepted the responsibility and sought views of
all members “If any member has any objection for him being
earmarked for the task of Returning
Officer?” No one
raised any objection. Returning Officer
sought clarification from President on proxy voting. President clarified that there is no such provision in the laws. With
these clarifications the house gave clearance to the Returning Officer to proceed to conduct the election. President
then requested the contestants to suggest the
name of one more member to assist the RO for conduct of election. Since
no name was suggested, Lt Col VK Ogra volunteered for the role.
15. Lt
Col Paramjit Singh who had forwarded his
name for treasurer, withdrew from contesting as treasurer at the last moment.
Col VK Suri, Returning Officer then announced that Col Rajiv Kakra stands
elected for the post of Joint Secretary and Col Vijay Kumar for the post of
Treasurer unopposed. He explained to the members, detailed procedure of conduct
of election for the post of Vice President through secret ballot. He then
showed the ballot box to both the candidates for the post of Vice President and
locked the same in their presence.
16. Returning
Officer requested the members to cast
their vote as explained. After casting
of votes by members was over, Retuning Officer brought the locked ballot box
and opened the same in the presence of house and started counting the votes. Counting was done in the
presence of the house. Major AR Ghosh was declared elected for the post of Vice
President.
AGENDA POINT NO. 7
Any other point with permission of the
chair
17. President
asked the members if they have any other point. There being no other point from
any members. President thanked all
members present in the meeting for
attending the EGM and said “I trust next
meeting will be without interruption”. House proceeded with the next
agenda point.
AGENDA POINT NO. 8
Vote of Thanks
18. There being no other point, the meeting was
closed at 1320 hrs with a
vote of thanks proposed by Col JD Sharma (M
No. 1368) and seconded by
Cdr NK Singla (M No. 3679). This was followed
by lunch.
PRESIDENT, RDOA
